Flagrant
['fleɪgr(ə)nt] or ['fleɡrənt]
Definition
(a.) Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
(a.) Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
(a.) Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Inputed by Lawrence
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Flaming, glowing, burning, raging.[2]. Notorious, glaring, enormous, crying.
Edited by Beverly
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FLAGITIOUS]
Typed by Audrey
Definition
adj. glaring: notorious: enormous.—ns. Flā′grance Flā′grancy.—adv. Flā′grantly.
Typed by Hester
Examples
- It is the most flagrant example of an abominable public vehicle that ever encumbered the face of the earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There you sit, sir, as if you had an unlimited capacity of assimilating the flagrant article! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To be sure, my dear,' he returned, with a most flagrant assumption of unconsciousness, 'I did omit it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Typed by Hester